I've been fortunate to see these guys at least a cupla dozen times, starting w/ On Your Feet. stadiums & bars. Saw them as Soft White Underbelly outside of ALBQ. at a Grahms Central Station bar. Buck is the most under rated guitarist ever. Melodies are fantastic with Bucks truly inspired licks n riffs n rants woven within.
The first concert I ever saw was when I was 15, in 1978 at the Capital Center in Landover, Md. It was their "Spectres" tour. "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees" was one of my favorite live albums of all time! And now, here I am almost 50 years later, watching this. 21st Century living has its benefits!
Hi from France. This show was broadcasted on french TV in '76 I think. I saw it on my black and white TV set ! I was 15 ! Great memory ! The program was Juke Box presented by the great Freddie Hausser ! RIP Freddie...
I saw BOC when they played the "On Your Feet or On Your Knees" tour in Vancouver BC in 1975 when I was 15. Tickets cost $5 and we stood at the very front of the stage. They were my favorite band and so loud that when the concert was over and we went outside I could barely hear a car horn honk. I was practically deaf for 2 days. They rocked!
Couldn't agree more! They were hard rock masterpieces. That iteration of BOC was definitely my favorite. I STILL listen to all three of those albums regularly.
people thought they were european they had such a different sound. fusing hard rock w/ real musianship, their mystique grew as no pictures of the group on their albums, just these freaky graphics. i saw them the first time at winterland, san francisco, after their 3rd epic alum. middle billed between kansas and local favorite the jefferson starship. let me tell you, they blew everyone away. sharp, hard edge, fast and loud. awesome. hail buck dharma!
Stairway to the Stars 0:24 Flaming Telepaths 4:29 Then Came the Last Days of May 10:05 Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll 15:14 Born to Be Wild 20:10 ME 262 27:11
The new album is ass fuckin GREAT and I can't sleep after hearing The Return Of St. Cecilia just as when I've first experienced Buck's Boogie. Awesome! New music from BOC after these years was like unreal to me. Really it is like a little miracle in my life.
They uniquely and succinctly balanced the mysterious with the familiar. No other band was ever able to juxtapose the esoteric with the accessible better than BOC did. Whether it's Astronomy or Reaper, Veteran or Burnin', Flaming Ts, Harvester, Diz-Busters, Crawford and on and on.... Lyrically tops, song-craft was way up there....and best of all, this band had **THE JAMS!!!**
Because RRHOF is irrelevant. They have ridiculous modern pop artists in their HOF, and many iconic bands are not. It's a joke, and they're no authority on anything.
some of the greatest riffs of all time , ETI Godzilla , burning , reaper on top of one of the greatest live shows . seen them multiple times still sounds badass today . much respect BOC fan since the 70s
Saw them for the 1st time in a 2000 seat opera house in summer 1973. Going to see them in a 1500 seat playhouse in 2 weeks. And all the arenas, stadiums and festivals in between totalling 15 shows in all. Each was an amazing experience in it's own way. Great live. Excellent studio sound.
I've seen BOC many times and I never saw a bad, or even mediocre, performance. They always gave their all! They are very under rated. Great albums and a great live band!
Man! They were having fun and with a good set list. Buck brought tears to my eyes a couple times. Such a great guitarist! I have been a fan for almost 50 years. Thank you for posting, Pawel!
Still great live in the UK in June 2017 as well ... I didn't see them until August 81 (about a day after Albert was fired, how's that for timing) ... no matter when you see them it's always wonderful ... but this 75 footage is just incredible.
THE MOST UNDER RATED group in rock and roll history. I have seen them over 12 times. There music changed after the Bouchard brothers left. A little more jazz and jamming. But nevertheless they are still making albums. After their, departure Dharma and Lanear took over the music. Not once a year like in the 70's. I had the opportunity to go back stage in Philly in 1989! Still have the pass. Their revolution by night and cultasorous erectus albums are definately worth listening to. A couple of things worth mentioning. Bloom is a cousin of Howard Stern and Dharma has been married for most of the bands life! He also holds a jazz festival every year for charity. Also, after the Agents of Fortune album. Dharma was rated at the number 1 guitar in Guitar mag displacing eddie Van Halen. The are still touring with Albert Bouchard! Doing the old stuff and selling out in Europe!
Secret Treaties, Agents of Fortune, Spectres, Fire of unknown origin are best albums, i recently discovered them and I am totally blown away, i cannot believe how they are awesome and original, maybe even the best band of all times, much betterr than their conterporaries like Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Whitesnake,Black Sabbath , cant believe how they are underrated, all of their albums are awesome , next to four i counted are Cultosaurus , Imaginos, Heaven Forbid , maybe only Mirrors are weaker but still very good
Mario I have heard that one more album next year could happen ... no idea if that is true or not though. What a concert this was in 1975, vital footage for BOC fans right here .. Just seen them on 28/06/17 & still f***ing amazing live .... true legends.
CULT JUST ROCKS. I was 15, and there was no way to make it to Paris.....cool, they came to Chicago plenty.........this concert is a Don Roser showcase.
5 vocalists not 3. Gave them a flexibility others just didn't have. Plus Albert also played guitar. So 4 guitars, 5 lead singers and a bad ass bass! 😁 And at least 3 keyboard players (Allen, Erik & Albert)
Yep Joe Bouchard sings lead on Hot Rails and others I can't think of right now. Career maybe?? It is after all 4 am. Check out Martin Popoffs book for details. I'm just a fan. Albert famously on Cities & Godzilla. That's 5 And Buck played a bit of guitar here and there. He was quite good at it!
Played a phenomenal drum solo in 1975 at Kiel Auditorium. He had his Derby on during the solo and switched rapidly back and forth between his two floor bases and his Tom's as the lights followed from his hands to his feet. Unforgettable I'll always remember that solo. St Louis always had the greatest concerts that show which also included Uriah Heep and Montrose cost $3.95 general admission. In other words first come first serve on the seat.
Seen these guys so many times and always unbelievable since first time in 1976. Favourite song of all time is Last Days of May from OTFOOYK such guitar and such emotion. Privileged to be alive in the guitar era!! !!!
To me, if it doesn't have guitar, especially lead guitar, it ain't Rock. Guitarist here. Grew up on Led Zeppelin and BOC, amongst a host of others. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
Wow! This was pretty much from the time I got into BOC as a teenager... Oh boy! The MEMORIES!!! In fact I first went to see them at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in '77 or' 78! I remember too how, in ME262, all 5 of them played guitars in a line on stage! Classic BOC!! And when they hit the opening notes of "The Reaper" they were TOTALLY drowned out by the audience's deafening ROAR!!
Seen many concerts and BOC was the only band that kept me captivated every single second. From the moment they set on stage Even if I went with a woman or met one at the show it didn't matter, I was watching BOC until the last F******g note.
I was at the long beach arena I believe in 73 or 74 when they recorded a song that they put on the album an enchanted evening .It was the last days of may. I was the one in the begining of the song who yelled out auwoo They put that song on there live album . All the other songs on the album they got from other cities on the tour . That was my very short career has a rock & roll star. I was sixteen . I'm sixtyfour now wow
Lol He is channeling man, that's why he's so great. He isn't straining, THINKING and planning what he's playing. Its flowing through him from somewhere else.
1. Stairway to the Stars 2. Flaming Telepaths 3. Then Came the Last Days Of May 4. Cities On Flame 5. Born to Be Wild 6. ME 262 / Guitar Solo / Finale / ME 262 (reprise)
Love all the bits and tricks .Dry ice guitar sex in "Born to Be Wild" , drum stick twirls .Early on the drummer flips the bird to somebody mid song .The all five guitars at once solos . Very cool bass solo .They really do it all within the show .Not many bands now could match their showmanship and musical skill .
cuninglinguist I just noticed him flipping the bird and since I was viewing it on my cellphone I wasn't sure if that's what he was doing. It's right at 16:49 during "Cities On Flame". Pretty funny.
Brother Joe joins the drummer with some hand signals of his own at 17:55. Don't know what had the Bouchard Brothers so riled. At about 18:34 Buck looks in the same direction and says something so there must have been some obnoxious fan(s) over there or something.
Big thanks for your comments and attention! Didn't expect to have so much vieves here. I'm doin my best to spread Underbelly among rock fans and musicians in my country too. Greetings from Poland! Long live BOC!
Pawel, what an amazing concert & what incredibly important footage for the band & their fans. Great to see some of that On Your Feet or on Your Knees era magic caught on film. wow just wow ....
3 of my first 4 concerts were BOC during the short “laser show” era. The ultimate “give the people what they want” band. Then Came The Last Days of May still top 10 greatest songs of all time.
I was in Paris once. Went to see Les Braunstein, singer with Soft White Underbelly, precursor to BOC. Ironically, I was there with his college girlfriend. And, even more ironically, I brought Buck snd Al Bouchard together in a college band that became BOC. So, there was a bunch going on psychologically, you might say. Sex, no drugs, but rock’n’roll. My life is a wonderful, dizzy amalgamation of coincidental happenstance. I am happy to still be alive!
15:13 Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll. 24:55 is one of the coolest things I've ever seen done at a concert. Making THUNDER with a CLASH OF GUITAR NECKS \m/ that's badass! That's rock and roll
I was born in 1968 the youngest of four children. I was introduced early to quality music starting with the Beatles and the Beach Boys, Elvis and Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the Rat Pack. Through the 70's my parents listened to top 40 radio so I was influenced by everything from the Monkeys to Jethro Tull, Nancy Sinatra to Neil Diamond. Anyone who remembers 70's top 40 radio knows it was quite eclectic. In 1977 I was 9 years old and that's when I really started to develop my own tastes for music. I was riding my bike on a dirt hill in my neighborhood that was the beginnings of a public park. I met another kid riding his bike and after a couple hours of riding together he said we should ride to his house and his mother would make us sandwiches for lunch. He lived across the street from an old, quite mature citrus orchard. This was in Glendale, Arizona. The trees were very old and large. Orange, lemon and grapefruit trees interspersed with date palms, regular palms and even pomegranate bushes. It was very dense and not set up like normal orchards where the trees are all in orderly rows. It was planted very haphazardly with no real rhyme or reason. The trees were all just intermingled. The owners house was off of 51st avenue but set back in the orchard a bit. The owner was elderly and didn't take care of the orchard so it was very overgrown. Lot's of local kids would play in there and build tree forts and whatnot. It gave the area an ancient feel even though the neighborhood that my new friend lived in was probably built in the mid to late 60's. The houses were upper middle class and built in the suburban California style of architecture. Because of these things it really gave the feeling of being in California. After eating the lunch his mother had made us, we went to his room to rest up from the bike ride and play with his toys. He brought out his little box turntable and asked me if I had ever heard the song Hotel California. Up until then I wasn't really interested in music as anything more than something to fill the background during car rides. He put the record on his record player and for the first time in my life I really listened to music. I was transfixed. It was the most fantastic song I had ever heard. We listened to it over and over for the next hour while looking out his window at the orchard across the street. In 1977 California was still the place to be when it came to music and the counterculture and I was transported there through this music and setting. Through this experience I began to realize that there were bands that were better then the rest. There were REAL bands, and there were bands that happen to make music. Bands that set the bar, and other bands that attempted to reach that bar. From the very first time I heard BOC I knew that they were one of the bands setting the bar. They were one of the REAL bands counted with the best of the best. They were writing songs that did the same thing to me that Hotel California had done to me that hot summer day in 1977. In 1986 I bought a JVC CD player and my first 3 CD's. The Beatles Sgt. Peppers, Rush 2112 and BOC Club Ninja. Now, decades later I have the entire BOC catalog in digital format and celebrate it by playing it for my daughter and her friends. I don't think it does to them what it did to me, but I think they are starting to understand that not all bands are great, and they certainly understand that music today doesn't come close to what were even considered average songs in the 70's.
Buck can boogie with the best of them---what a freaking band I can still remember the first time I heard the first album how bout the end of I'm on the lamb but I ain't no sheep what a finale??
Les vi 10 días después, 13/11/75 en Bilbao. No conocía ninguna de sus canciones, excepto born to be wild, pero fue un concierto estupendo, muy arrebatado y emocional. Que tiempos...del rock a las manifas
Song List: ========== 0:01 intro 0:24 Stairway to the Stars 4:29 Flaming Telepaths 10:05 Then Came the Last Days of May 15:14 Cities on Flame With Rock and Roll 20:10 Born to Be Wild 27:11 ME 262 29:48 => Guitar Interlude 30:43 => Buck Solo 35:25 => Bass Solo 35:59 => 5 Guitar 39:36 => return to song 42:12 exit
Awesome set! Love Flaming Telepaths & ME 262. OYFOOYK was, and still is, an incredible live album! Wish I could have seen them live in the 70's! Got to see them (first time) on the Fire of Unknown Origin tour, but it wasn't the same.
David Arnold.. I was lucky to have seen BOC at least 10 times from 74-79.. they were so good I had to see everytime they were in driving distance.. thank to RU-vid we relive those great bands
0:22 Stairway to the stars 4:28 Flaming Telepaths 10:05 Last Days of May 15:13 Cities on Flame 20:09 Same Cover Song that my band played in high school 24:55 Not marking the entry of another song, just going "Whoa! that's fucking COOL!!!!!" 27:10 ME 262
Astonishing!!! Nothing compares today...they were the first band I ever saw live in manchester 1988..I was astounded then (and astonished)..still my favourite band. Thinking of sending this vid to everyone I know as a Xmas present.
I remember this show mostly for the fact that apparently Mick Jagger (quite incognito, I didn't recognize him) hung out at the mix console for awhile during the set. My first Tent gig. The trials and tribulations of Sam Judd are described elsewhere in the comments: a good read.
My favorite venue, me and my friends averaged about 20 shows a year. I believe it was on Steiner St. We used to catch the Geary bus and get off at Filmore and walk down a few blocks.
I've seen BOC 9 times in concert. I loved the original lineup the best of course but I also liked Danny Miranda on bass and Vinnie Appice on drums. I've seen them in small clubs as well as big places. My favorites were Portland Oregon at the Roseland Theatre 2003, 2004, 2007 and New Orleans some nightlclub, I forgot the name, 1986, I was up at the very front of the stage.
Thanks Pawel for the edit of this show, I had seen it before but with lots of French chat in it. The quality is very good, both in picture quality and sound. As I mentioned on that first posting I saw them in London a few later at Hammersmith odeon on November 23rd, it is still one of the top five gigs i have ever been to. I still have the big venue poster advertising the gig.
@@suereed I saw them on the return gig to Hammersmith not the first one before they went o Europe. Support band was Birth Control, who were OK from what i remember. BOC were bloody amazing though
@@gregfripp696 Yes a real shame. It is pretty amazing to see any footage from back then, so I am grateful for it all. The Hammersmith gig just after was was one of best gigs I have ever been to.
I was such a huge Sabbath fan in the seventies that I more or less ignored BOC even after buying Tyranny and Agents of Fortune. Never had a strong desire to see them live. Boy, what I missed. Wished I had ditched Sabbath's Technical Ecstacy tour and saw BOC.
Check out the S&M gear Albert has on! That was also always a side to BOC was a tongue & cheek perverse Sadomasochistic vibe. Crazy Long Islanders! Love it!
As somebody who was a teenager in the 90s who should dig bands of the time like Metallica,Pearl Jam,Nirvana,Pantera,Guns n Roses just to name a few I also got into classic rock like The Doors,Hendrix,Zeppelin etc. when I first heard BOC I was instantly hooked I thought then in 1995 as I do today,well don't know how to put their awesomeness in words but big fan of Heaven Forbid and Curse of the hidden mirror,seen them in concert four times since 1998 and look forward to seeing them soon in my town.